Spying on Somali refugees keeps feds busy, busy, busy; and more Somalis on the way!
Our supposed surveillance of the Somali “community” in Minneapolis didn’t catch this jihadist—one of many Somali youths we raised on your dime!
http://drrichswier.com/2014/06/20/jihad-cool-muslims-u-s-head-syria-iraq-join-isis-bring-back-caliphate/
Over the last 24 hours two stories came to my attention about how the federal government and local law enforcement supposedly have their hands full and are crafting programs and spending big bucks on surveillance of the Somali refugee “community” in several Office of Refugee Resettlement “preferred” resettlement cities—notably Minneapolis and San Diego. They are looking for budding terrorist activity.
Both articles question how well the spy agencies and local FBI are doing. Both are leading readers to conclude that spying on Somalis is a waste of money and take away their civil liberties.
The first article, published yesterday in the New Yorker is too long to keep my interest, maybe it will keep yours! I feel like saying yes, we know about San Diego’s nest of Somalis connected to Al-Shabaab. We have written about them on many occasions (click here for our San Diego archive).
Although the writer is busy trying really hard to show that phone surveillance under the Patriot Act is catching only a small handful of little-fish funders of the jihad in Africa, I was most interested in what it never mentions!
Not once in this giant tome is there any reference to how the Somalis got here in the first place through the Refugee Resettlement Program of the US State Department.
Some readers, new to the whole Somali migration to America issue, would think that Somalis got in some migration ‘line’ in Africa and simply ‘found their way’ to San Diego. Although there is much discussion about where they live in San Diego, again, not a word about the federally-funded resettlement contractors(Alliance for African Assistance, Jewish Family Services, International Rescue Committee, and Catholic Charities) who found them their apartments, or the State Department that flew them there. The word “refugee” appears only once in the article and that is in conjunction with the word “camp” as in “refugee camp.”
One thing that is mentioned as if it is just your normal every day occurrence is the discussion about Somalis (refugees remember! who have escaped PERSECUTION) simply traveling back and forth to Somalia (in one case to find a wife). If Somalia was safe enough for regular visits why in hell did we bring them here!
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